The
South Camden Trust Company was opened for business on April 2, 1921.
Judge Ralph
W.E. Donges was the first president, plumbing and heating contractor
William J. Kelly was one of
the charter directors. By the mid 1920s the bank was
successful enough to the point where a new building was called for.
Architect Joseph
Hettel of the firm Lackey & Hettel of Camden NJ was selected to
design the new building, to be built at the corner of Broadway &
Ferry Avenue, across the street form Judge Donges' boyhood home. Contractor
James W. Draper began operations on the new banking house of the South
Camden Trust Company, at Broadway and Ferry Avenue, on Monday, March 1,
1926.

The bank did
not survive, and by 1938 it had been vacant for years, and taxes were in
arrears. A settlement was come to in early 1938.

By 1947 the building was the home of the First
Italian Pentecostal Church. Although the building has changed hands over
the years, it remains open as a church to this day.

The second largest account settled in January was the building formerly
occupied by the South Camden Trust Company at 1800
Broadway. This was a compromise. In addition to waiving interest, the city reduced the
principal from $11,824.31 to $10,000. The building had been idle for
years.